TY - GEN AU - WARREN, Michael TI - Speaking and learning in the local church: A look at the material conditions PY - 1995/// CY - Minnesota PB - St Benedict KW - Speech N2 - The textuality of the local church, especially its patterns of speech, are features needing special scrutiny, for in current practice they can mute the normal work of interpretation and judgment that should characterize communities following texts held to be both ultimate and normative. Examines conditions of discourse in the early church and from them argues for deep structures of participation in contemporary church life ER -